Rodrigo Duterte

Rodrigo Duterte (28 March 1945-) was the Mayor of Davao City in the Philippines from 30 June 2013, succeeding Sara Duterte, and a member of the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2001. In 2016, he ran for president for the PDP-Laban socialist party against Grace Poe and Mar Roxas.

Biography
Rodrigo Duterte was born on 28 March 1945 in Maasin, Leyte, Philippines to a political family of Visayan descent. He was expelled from a few schools for misconduct, and he was not allowed to join the graduation rites at his law school for shooting a student who racially insulted Visayans. In 1989, he became Vice-Mayor of Davao City after the People Power Revolution, and in 2010 his daughter Sara Duterte became Mayor of Davao. Three years later, Rodrigo himself became mayor, and he passed and strictly enforced several laws, such as the banning of drinking alcohol from 1 to 8 AM, reducing speed limits, passing anti-smoking ordinance, banning firecrackers, establishing CCTVs in malls and shopping centers, and upholding women's rights. In 2016, he ran for President as the socialist PDP-Laban candidate, but his candidacy was tainted by his support of the Davao death squads (vigilantes that killed around 1,040 people from 1998 to 2008) and his joking about rape in his city, saying that he should have been the first to rape a murdered Australian woman. Duterte's Donald Trump-like reputation for harsh comments and bad humor led to him having a similar level of controversy, with the Communist Party of the Philippines (leaders of the New People's Army) supporting his bid while Senator Antonio Trillanes threatened a coup d'etat against him if he was elected.